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That was the new Hoffa in action. Even while still inside (for fraud and jury tampering), the teamster boss began fighting for the rights of inmates. Ever since President Nixon commuted his sentence last December, after nearly 58 months of a possible 13 years, Hoffa, with not much else to do, has been crusading for prison reform. Under the terms of his commutation, he must stay out of union business until 1980. This week Hoffa returns for sympathetic hearings to Capitol Hill, where in other times he has occasionally been roughly treated. He will appear before a House Judiciary subcommittee...
...continue controls under a rejiggered Pay Board. Instead of a tripartite panel made up of five members each from business, labor and the public, the board will now have five public members and one representative from labor and business. Ironically, Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the scandal-scarred Teamsters, who refused to walk out, is for the moment the panel's lone labor spokesman. "Fitz" owes a favor to the President, who commuted former Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa's prison term last year...
Politics First. Meany's opposition was inspired more by politics than economics. In the upper ranks of the AFL-CIO, the distrust and dislike of Richard Nixon is so intense that, as one Teamster officer says, it verges on "paranoia." Many months ago, Meany demanded wage-price controls while the President was still voicing an almost theological opposition to them. When the President turned around and embraced controls, Meany held out for a tripartite Pay Board with labor representation-and got it. Meany has not attended a board meeting since November, but he has sent his economist Nat Goldfinger...
Four years and nine months ago, after strenuous efforts by the Kennedy Administration to get him jailed, Teamster Boss James Hoffa walked through the gates of the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa., to start serving a 13-year sentence for jury tampering and mail fraud. Last week Jimmy Hoffa walked out, his sentence commuted by order of President Nixon. The Justice Department announcement noted that Hoffa had been a well-behaved prisoner and indicated that Nixon had acted largely for humanitarian reasons: Hoffa's wife Josephine is recovering from a heart attack...
...while. The major issue of the strike is neither wages nor benefits -though the union wants hefty increases in both-but a jurisdictional dispute with another union. At stake is the job of "stuffing and unstuffing" containers near the dock, an operation that increasingly is being handled by Teamster employees of freight-forwarding companies. San Francisco Teamster Boss Joseph Diviny has notified freight firms that his union has "no intention of giving up the work" and calls Bridges' claim that all dock labor belongs to longshoremen "a lot of baloney." The Teamsters recently agreed to settle the dispute...